Chapter eleven focuses on the linguistic, stylistic and palaeographical features of another Dublin manuscript of the later Middle Ages, Royal Irish Academy Library MS 12 R31, a deluxe copy of a book of hours for Sarum use produced in Rouen around 1444 for the marriage of Sir Thomas Hoo and Eleanor Welles.

In 1892 Otto Jiriczek published a diplomatic edition of it from the better of the two manuscripts, MS K 23 4 in the Royal Library at Stockholm, but his introduction, focusing exclusively on palaeographical and linguistic features, was so utterly uninformative that not a single word was devoted to the content of the text.

Breaking nearly a century of scholarly neglect, Kruger (New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina) offers a full palaeographical, historical, and exegetical evaluation in order to clarify its place in the scope of early gospel traditions.

Joining an innovative close reading of the manuscript's illuminations to codicological and palaeographical analysis, Verkerk offers a convincing argument for the abandonment of the often repeated but weakly supported attribution of the manuscript to Spain in favor of Italy and then attributes the manuscript's production to Rome in the late sixth century.

Neither group, seal-holders nor those with written personal names, can be identified with the "scribes," insofar as we can understand them from the limited number (10) of tentative palaeographical groupings identified within the sealing inscriptions.

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